Hi HN!
I'm the one NYT quoted in this article.
The creepy thing about this is that it does this while ignoring the user's location privacy settings and even if users are using a VPN or roaming (ie. data hits the Internet in user's home country instead of in China).
There are more details about how I tested this at the Hong Kong/China border on my blog: https://www.larrysalibra.com/how-apple-censors-news-in-china...